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LINGUIST List 20.1622

Tue Apr 28 2009

Confs: Cognitive Science, Semantics, Syntax/Norway

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        1.    Peter Svenonius, Workshop on Spatial Expressions
Message 1: Workshop on Spatial Expressions
Date: 26-Apr-2009
From: Peter Svenonius <peter.svenoniusuit.no>
Subject: Workshop on Spatial Expressions
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Workshop on Spatial Expressions

Date: 14-May-2009 - 15-May-2009
Location: Tromsø, Norway
Contact: Peter Svenonius
Contact Email: peter.svenoniusuit.no
Meeting URL: http://castl.uit.no/conferences/09/spatial-expressions/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Semantics; Syntax

Meeting Description:

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss formal analyses of spatial
expressions cross-linguistically, including expressions of location and of
motion. It is connected to the Moving Right Along project at CASTL, the Center
for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics.

Thursday May 14

10.00-11.00
William McGregor (Invited Speaker, Aarhus)
'Spatial Frames of Reference in Gooniyandi'

11.00-11.30
Coffee

11.30-12.15
Nana Kusuma (Leiden)
'Localizers in Mandarin Chinese: The Hakka Connection'

12.15-13.00
Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare (Nyu) and Arhonto Terzi (Patras)
'The Syntax of Spatial Expressions: Evidence from Shupamen'

13.00-14.00
Lunch

14.00-14.45
Tafseer Ahmed (Konstanz)
'Modeling Different Semantic Usages of Spatial Markers Using Underspecified
Features'

14.45-15.30
Marina Pantcheva (Tromsø)
'On the Locative Uses of Route Expressions: A Syntactic Account'

15.30-16.00
Coffee

16.00-16.45
Berit Gehrke (Pompeu Fabra) and Veronika Heged?s (Has)
'The Licensing of Paths'

16.45-17.30
Minjeong Son (Tromsø)
'Two Ways to Express Directed Manner of Motion in Indonesian/Malay and Different
Event Construals'


Friday May 15

10.00-11.00
Melissa Bowerman (Invited Speaker, Max Planck Nijmegen)
'Semantic Categories of Space in Adult and Child Language: A Cross-Linguistic
Perspective'

11.00-11.30
Coffee

11.30-12.15
Narayan Sharma (Tribhuvan, Kathmandu)
'Deictic Expressions in Puma'

12.15-13.00
Berit Gehrke (Pompeu Fabra)
'Word Order and Case Alternations with PPS as Reflexes of Complex Predicate
Formation'

13.00-14.00
Lunch

14.00-14.45
Laura Janda and Tore Nesset (Tromsø)
'From Going Somewhere to Getting Things Done: Spatial Prefixes as Aspectual
Markers in Russian'

14.45-15.30
Svetlana Sokolova (Tromsø)
'Ingressive Usage of the Russian Verbal Prefixes Za- and Po: Any Spatial Features?'

15.30-16.00
Coffee

16.00-16.45
Julia Kuznetsova (Tromsø)
'Do Speech Verbs Have a Spatial Argument?'

16.45-17.30
Pavel Caha (Tromsø)
'The Jungle of Czech Local Cases'

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